Uganda: Will the opposition parties remain standing in 2011? The Daily Monitor (2010)
This article discusses the final weeks of the electoral campaign in Uganda. The author highlight how the electoral campaigns are becoming longer and longer in the country: in 1996, the campaign period was 39 days, in 2001 it was 45 days, in 2006, ii56 days and this year it will be 112 days long. The campaign is tense, as 1,700 candidates are running for the 375 seats in the parliament, but the author believes that only 100 of them are really competitive.
The link address is: http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/KaroliSsemogerere/-/878682/1077070/-/5chxqyz/-/